{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

I would insist that while my pessimism does not exclude aesthetic contemplation, and that it can take account of the joy derived from it.But the problem is that the pleasure of beauty is,for most people,very weak,fragile and uncommon. To appreciate the fragility and weakness of beauty ,one only had to go to a concert with a toothache,visit an art gallery with stomach-ache or watch a sunset while seasick.The conditions for enjoying the aesthetic realm are narrow indeed.

The aesthetic attitude demands tranquility and peace of mind,which are most easily upset by those passions that are inevitably involved in the usual business of life-longing,fear,dread and anxiety.
So,unlike Nietzsche, I don’t think that life could be made worth living as an aesthetic phenomenon.Art is at best a faint and fleeting escape from suffering of life ,providing no hope for enduring redemption.
( Thanks to Herr Beiser ,author of Weltschmerz)

From the article you linked to:

"According to a global survey report, India has the largest population of modern slaves in the world, with more than 18 million people trapped as bonded labourers, forced beggars, sex workers and child soldiers."

So much for the benefits of religion.  I doubt Schopenhauer was aware of the color coded caste system when he was glorifying the Hindus from what he was reading in their Upanishads.   I read somewhere ... I forget the source .... that there was a time long ago when those indigenous to the continent of India were very dark-skinned intellectuals, and that they were invaded and militarily conquered by farmers/soldiers from the Caucus mountains of Iran, who were a bit lighter and not as intellectually sophisticated.   They are the ones who set up the color-coded religious doctrines which would impose the social order, the religious caste system, which placed the invaders high, and the conquered intellectuals low, carrying waste in buckets on their heads.

Science fiction or nightmare reality?

Similarly in Japan, albeit on far smaller proportions ... long ago invaded by people who I would think must have been of Korean origin, so that those who claim to be Japanese for a thousand years and more are not truly indigenous.   The indigenous people of Japan live in the mountains and grow their beards!

I won't bore you with an overview of imperialism or the political roots of "religious beliefs" in North and South America.  I think the entire world is well aware of the whole "Manifest Destiny" crappola that served as a license for the colonization of the Americas, first by Spain in the south, and eventually by the English, French, Dutch, etc in the North.

Even though I try not to spend too much time thinking about  the show-business they call politics, I always cringe when I hear people clamor to "defend the homeland", as if one can just conveniently forget the indigenous people who have been rounded up into concentration reservation camps ... Again, the truth is stranger than fiction.   Fuuck Star Wars.  Just look at this planet and all the monkey business going on.

And the gorillas in the jungle, well, their behavior is not much better.  Wasn't it you who showed me footage of the male gorillas beating down (eventually to death) the lone male who must have questioned the authority of the head gorillas in charge?

What a wonderful world, indeed!

You and I and Raul (and the cult of antinatalists that exist throughout the world) display great care and compassion for the unborn by not bringing them into this world where one can be snatched up and sold into slavery ...